The Boys - An Amazon Prime adaptation of the Ennis comic series

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Sasmate said:
It’s a shame the writers don’t know how to write characters that can play 4D chess properly. Sister Sage is a genuine idiot. I guess her power is supposed to be book smarts because she has only a surface level understanding of how people actually operate.

Here’s something to chew on. Who’s smarter?
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A extremely rich mastermind that not only choreographed a whole delicate system of animatronics, special effects, and otherworldly scenarios involving systems that have not yet been invented,
but also constructed a human suit complete with fluid systems, blushing, elasticity, and perfect fluidity, along with a perfect voice modifier all to hang out with ONE GUY and smoke some weed, drink some diet soda, and play burnout revenge on the PS2.
His first plan actually worked, and his second plan only failed due to the fact that something entered the equation that he could not have had any knowledge of.
Even then he clearly possesses A-train’s powers, being able to escape at high velocity across the surface of water. He also came back from certain death, showcasing a powerful healing factor, better than Sage’s. He will return with a more elaborate plan to get back his winning streak.

OR
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A nigress whose power is being a 4channer. All she has done so far is use basic reverse psychology, online propaganda, and (poorly) attempt to play unpredictable and irrational people like fiddles, which she cannot quite seem to grasp.
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Sister Sage doesn't realize it yet, but she too is part of Mr. Landlord's ingenious plan to hang out with Allan.
 
TheHarbinger said:
The rules never make sense. Which is why capeshit can never really rise above its own mediocre beginnings.
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It’s the shit writing. I grew up watching the animated Justice League series and got that there’s always some dumb power level shit, but the writing counts. Did Kripke forget that actions have a reaction and a fucking consequence?

I’m so disappointed by the missed chance for Homelander to kill The Legend. If it were 1st season Homelander, he would’ve said he was fine to go, and as The Legend turned around Homelander would’ve lasered him for shits and giggles. Why are you trying to appeal to Homelanders’ humanity and mortality at this point? He’s beyond irredeemable and literally becomes immortal at the end.

I saw one theory that Clara Vought may end up being the egg-donor for Homelander, which would add to the degeneracy Kripke loves so much. I know that in the comic, Homelander and Soldier Boy actually have sex. Why did they need to reference it in to an unnecessary disgusting incest joke? Wasn’t even funny, so calling it a joke is a stretch. Homelander isn’t even asexual, he raped Becca and impregnated her for fucks sake! They can’t even bother to remember their shitty writing to have continuity.
 
Lurk Moar Fag said:
Why are you trying to appeal to Homelanders’ humanity and mortality at this point? He’s beyond irredeemable and literally becomes immortal at the end.
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Because homelander is sole reason the show still exists and sole thing it will be remembered for, and most people still love him, and as incompetent the writers are, on some level they recognize that.
 
This has been at the back of my mind the entire season but it does seem to me like they've ran out of budget for any setpiece and nearly everything's taking place either inside of a dim warehouse, a dim house or a dim office building.
 
BiggestKai said:
This has been at the back of my mind the entire season but it does seem to me like they've ran out of budget for any setpiece and nearly everything's taking place either inside of a dim warehouse, a dim house or a dim office building.
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The fights are cheap as well. It's the "I go then you go" formula. And each fight is literally someone punches someone into a concrete wall. They then recover and throw a punch back to their opponent who goes through the opposite concrete wall. The choreography is exceptionally lazy and amateurish. And the other fighting types are Kripke's kike slop of testicle powers and eating dirt and shitting it out rapidly.

Unless the show has a $50 million final episode this season will go down in Game of Throne finale territory.
 
>black character
>smartest person in the world
>bonds with the protagonist team's black guy that these bitch made cracka's dont deserve shit.
>homelander gets the mcguffin from his father.
>the one only thing she is not right about

Unintentionally the fucking funniest bit the show did.
 
Why is the SFX minus scene bleeped to hell and back?
The subtitles still say fuck.

I thought the SB bombsight fight was ruined because Sage was running her fucking mouth calling it predictable, which means nothing matters until homelander blasts in, which was also obvious.

But hey, at least she was completely wrong. That was fun.

Fuck I hate Sage.

And Redditors. Them being creepy shits to Valorie Curry means she's going to turn into another one of those never nudes.

Kripke keeps shitting on his own writing, why not stop writing entirely?

I did get a kick out of Will Forte having Bill Hader killed out of jealousy.

I also liked that sage fucked with MM with the "we all in dis together" shit which he previously said he hates.

Canonically, all black supes were filtered into black teams by Vought. That was probably Legend. Stillwell fucked it all up.

I stupidly thought the next episode was the finale and that they were going to gap it for the finale being in theaters, but shit, there's another one.
 
Estate said:
"How could this happen?! I did not forsee a father helping his son" - smartest nigger on the planet
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He wasn't helping his son.

Sage correctly understood that Soldier Boy loved Stormfront (which was fairly obvious)
AssignedEva said:
The reason he looks uncomfortable imo is that he genuinely loved Stormfront and they had a serious relationship, and in his toxic Silent Generation way is downplaying all that as "we fucked a couple of times".
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These feelings of love were stronger than whatever begrudging paternal feelings were starting to stir in Soldier Boy's heart towards Homelander. Which is why Sage set them up with the clip of Homelander using a mutilated Stormfront to masturbate, because she knew it would kill those feelings, because he loved Stormfront so much.

However, Sage didn't predict that those same feelings of love towards Stormfront would get stirred up again and prompt him to selflessly do what Stormfront would have wanted (give the V1 to a guy he hates). I assume because love is unpredictable and Sage doesn't fully understand love.

It's eyeroll inducing writing, but it at least makes sense. Unlike Kimiko gushing over Golden Geisha for providing representation, and how big a deal it was for Kimiko to see someone who looked like her on TV. Kimiko, who grew up in Japan, a country that is entirely filled with people who look like her, and whose TV stars all look like her.
 
I never understood this fucking show. Did someone actually think making the villain just Blonald Blumpf is clever and innovative?
 
Near said:
I never understood this fucking show. Did someone actually think making the villain just Blonald Blumpf is clever and innovative?
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The show used to be a bit smarter with its satire, the AOC figure ended up being controlled opposition who still acted in line with corporate interests, and it had a lot to say about the commercialisation of identity politics. It's also a bit of a mirror to what's going on around it - you can see the switch from Deep trying to grift by being a male feminist to Deep trying to grift by being a misogynistic podcast bro.

I think the problem with satirising Trump, particularly Trump 2, is you can't actually be audacious enough to do it. Homelander starts insisting he's God, Trump posts a picture of himself as Jesus. Homelander has a giant blasphemous gold statue in his church, Evangelicals unveil a massive golden calf Trump and pray over it. Obviously to his remaining cultists any attempt at mocking Trump will be instantly labelled unfunny and braindead because they can't handle criticism, but the show was pretty spot on with predicting how Trump has essentially crafted a syncretic religion picking up on elements of Christianity, American patriotism and hero-worship. The show itself always had a throughline with Starlight's own relationship with her faith contrasted with those who use the trappings of Christianity to grift and stoke culture wars while being hypocritical cynics (and Firecracker's storyline was actually really good).

The main issue with the show isn't that it can't nail satire, it just can't move its overall plot forward in a satisfying way. The Boys are boring now and a lot of this season has been a holding pattern of "we need to find the V1, oops didn't find it". A lot of the characterisation has collapased - Kimiko is insufferable now she can speak, Frenchie basically only exists to angst about his relationship with Kimiko, Starlight might as well not be a supe any more, Huey is just sort of there and Butcher went from embracing the dark side to basically just being himself but with tentacle powers. Oh, and they've really cranked the dumb sex jokes up to 11.
 
Gay Sex Enjoyer said:
Why the fuck is he even called "bombsight"
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I imagine he was not deployed imaginatively, he flew up and then he flew down. Simple as. Same time maybe he's got like telescopic sight. Well, did. Dipshit chose death to stay with his Japanese auntie.
Oilspill Battery said:
What are you refering to?
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Pretty clear in the source text, the celebs at marathon's mansion talk about how much better they're doing now that their rivals have been killed and they mock Forte for having Bill Hader killed and he's like "Shut up you guys".

I never really got the drug dealer joke because I don't do drugs but I get it, it's a power play. You sit around as long as your drug dealer says because they have the power.
In the case with marathon it was kind of funny because homelander was nerd in the corner, Soldier Boy got blasted on drugs, and these assholes expected him to help them kill homelander.

Weirdly enough, if they hadn't done the sit around forever bit it might have worked, but by the point they whipped their plan out Soldier Boy was like

"What the fuck, I thought you junkies were cool, but you're fucking nerds. Nerds die!"

And then he killed all of them by using marathon to telefrag them. He had a LOT of fun with it, like the false rescue mission, go,go,go, BOOM SPAGHETTI PASTE.

Craig Robinson didn't even get to say shit. Except disparage Danny Trejo.

The funny thing is I think they were riffing on the joke where if taco bell gives you the shits your diet is terminal.
 
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